Geography and Nationalist Visions of Interwar Yugoslavia

by Vedran Duani

Book Overview

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1. Introduction

Geographers as Nation Builders

Nationalist Geographical Narratives

A Time of Geographers in East Central Europe

Multi-leveled Geographies of Yugoslavia

Spatial Dimension of a Nation

2. The Emerging Geographical Network in Yugoslavia

Institutionalization of Geography in the Yugoslav Lands

Anthropogeography Between History and Ethnology

Trapped Between Primitiveness and Civilization

Studying Race

Teaching Geography at Universities

3. Jovan Cvijić and the Anthropogeography of the Balkans

The Center of the Network

A Geomorphologist's Vision of Anthropogeography

Shifting Attention from Serbian to Yugoslav Lands

The War That Changed the Perspective

The Proof That Yugoslavia Exists

4. Geographical Narration of Yugoslavia

Creating Yugoslavia in Paris

Croatian and Slovenian Geographical Narratives of Yugoslavia

Disillusionment of Cvijić

Early Works of Filip Lukas: The Yugoslavist Phase of a Croatian Nationalist

Unity Built on Fragments

Slovenian Perspectives on the Geography of Yugoslavia

A Beneficial Cohabitation: Slovenia and Yugoslavia

If Only Yugoslavia Could Become Like France

5. Geopolitical Visions of Yugoslavia

Improving the Geographical Literacy of the Nation

Ivo Pilar on the Trauma of 1918

Embracing the Geopolitik

Czechoslovak and Polish Lessons for Yugoslavia

The Reluctant Geopolitics of Anton Melik

Challenging the Geopolitical Paradigm

6. The Fight of Filip Lukas Against Yugoslavia

Echoes and Definitions

Denaturalizing Yugoslavia, Naturalizing Croatia

Toward a Right-Wing Geographical Vision of the Croatian Nation

Ethnology Against Geopolitics

Geography in the Time of Fascism

7. Conclusion

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030502619
• ISBN13: 9783030502614
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"